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Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State.

Contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports bound by session of Congress. It began publication with the 15th Congress, 1st Session (1817). Documents before 1817 may be found in the American State Papers. In general, it includes: committee reports related to bills and other matters, presidential communications to Congress, treaty materials, certain executive department publications, and certain non-governmental publications.

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The U.S. Serial Set, a full-text collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, includes Congressional reports and documents, executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, and all maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs found within the U.S. Serial Set during the time period covered.

Helps identify what titles exist for a specific place and time and how they can be accessed. Search by particular place and time, using keywords to locate specific titles. Titles listed as of 3/22/13: 151,797. From Chronicling America.

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Includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions centering on:

Ready reference file but not a comprehensive index to UN publications and documents. Created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library to respond to frequently asked questions, this database is designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers for UN materials. UN-I-QUE focuses on documents and publications of a recurrent nature: annual/sessional reports of committees/commissions; monographic series; journals; annual publications; reports periodically/irregularly issued; reports of major conferences; statements in the General Debate; etc. Information within each record is presented in reverse chronological order to facilitate identification of the most recent data.

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Vendor Name Dag Hammarskjold Library

Coverage 1946 - present

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To find the documents indexed in UNIQUE, take the document number and other identifying features from the entry to the Young Reference Services Desk on the 2nd floor of Young Library. Most material will be in microfiche if dated 1982 and after; material before 1982 is available in paper.

Searchable index of speeches made in the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983 - ), the Security Council beginning with its 38th year (1983 - ), the Economic and Social Council beginning in 1983 and the Trusteeship Council beginning with its 15th special session (1982). Links to the full-text of speeches are provided.

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Codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. Divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. First published in 1926. The next main edition was published in 1934, and subsequent main editions have been published every six years since 1934. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information.

FDsys contains virtual main editions of the U.S. Code. The information contained in the U.S. Code on FDsys has been provided to GPO by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. While every effort has been made to ensure that the U.S. Code on FDsys is accurate, those using it for legal research should verify their results against the printed version of the U.S. Code available through the Government Printing Office.

Of the 51 titles, 25 have been enacted into positive (statutory) law. These titles are 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 49, and 51. When a title of the Code was enacted into positive law, the text of the title became legal evidence of the law. Titles that have not been enacted into positive law are only prima facie evidence of the law. In that case, the Statutes at Large still govern.

The U.S. Code does not include regulations issued by executive branch agencies, decisions of the Federal courts, treaties, or laws enacted by State or local governments. Regulations issued by executive branch agencies are available in the Code of Federal Regulations. Proposed and recently adopted regulations may be found in the Federal Register.

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Vendor Name Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives

Update Frquency new edition every six years, with intervening supplements

Provides access to official statistics on U.S. foreign trade. Access requires that you come to the Young Library Reference Desk to be logged into the service. (Note to Reference: PW available in Electronic/SharePoint Rolodex.)

Documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Contains over 30,000 descriptions of current, publicly-supported research projects conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, the state land-grant university system, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in a number of USDA-administered grant programs, including Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and National Research Initiative (NRI), and the programs administered by the Science and Education Resources Development (SERD) unit of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).

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Vendor Name U.S. Department of Agriculture [USDA])

Coverage current fiscal year

Update Frquency three times a year

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Reports are available for some of the grant projects listed in CRIS. Each record contains the following information that could prove useful in tracking down the report: Project number, accession number, agency, investigator and project title. Search for these reports in InfoKat. NTIS Database (National Technical Information Service) is a good place to check for evidence of availability of reports. Consult with reference staff in your library for additional ideas.

At the end of each report, publications related to the grant work are listed. Search for local holdings in InfoKat and in the E-Journals Database. Verification searches for reports and other publications can also be performed in WorldCat. Verified items that are not available locally can be requested by UK affiliates via Interlibrary Loan.